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Netflix viewers in the Los Angeles area were treated to a special weekend when the home-entertainment giant launched “The Netflix Collection,” 12 strains of weed for pairing with their favorite programs. Since the US mail could not be used to deliver the goods, Netflix teamed up with West Hollywood dispensary Alternative Herbal Health Services, where viewers could pick up select nugs to enhance shows like Orange Is the New Black, Bojack Horseman and, especially, the newly released Disjointed. Netflix explained in a statement: “Each strain was cultivated with the specific shows in mind, designed to complement each title based on their tone. For example, sillier shows may be more indica dominant, while dramedies will be more sativa dominant to help the more powerful scenes resonate.” Netflix did not technically sell…

Barley-and-hops maestro Lagunitas has come out with a new brew that contains a little sumpin’ extra: cannabis terpenes. The ale, called SuperCritical (“California-only release, for now…,” according to the brewer’s blog), does not include THC, but it’s nice and grassy on the palate. The brewer teamed up with vape-cartridge company AbsoluteXtracts to produce this unique adult beverage. “These are created using a combination of dozens of terpenes that we isolate and refine during cannabis extraction, and they are what give our strains their unique flavor and sensory profiles,” Kial Long, marketing veep for AbsoluteXtracts, told the Chicago Tribune. Boasting terps from both Girl Scout Cookies and Blue Dream, and combining no less than six different kinds of hops, SuperCritical is a limited-edition ale—there’s only one batch of 60 barrels—but Lagunitas…

How weed-friendly is your town? Not, we bet, as verdant as what’s planned for Nipton, California, a small desert hamlet on the Nevada border. American Green, an Arizona-based cannabusiness, is purchasing the 80-acre Nipton (population six) and another 40 acres nearby for a reported $5 million. The company plans to “create a community that is accepting and understanding” of the herb, Stephen Shearin, a consultant on the development project, told Business Insider. “The [idea] here isn’t to create ‘Woodstock 2017,’” Shearin said. “It’s about creating an environment where people come to work and share in a community.” One of the first offerings in Nipton will be CBDinfused bottled water drawn from a nearby aquifer; eventually, visitors will be able to enjoy mineral baths, bud-happy lodging and, of course, an apothecary.…

Weed companies have had a hard time deploying traditional outlets for their advertising, partly because the FCC still frowns upon the use of the airwaves for touting dank products. Now Wikileaf, an app for finding weed and comparing prices, has figured out a way to air a 90-second ad it hopes will reach 8 million viewers: on a commercial airline. The app company teamed up with Virgin America to broadcast its spot in-flight on seatback screens. The ad features a young woman packing for a trip who must leave her cheeba behind to avoid getting busted at airport security. The cure for her smuggler’s blues is the app, which will help her find what she needs legally, after landing. “We wanted to get somewhere more mainstream,” Wikileaf CEO Dan Nelson…

The Yippies gave name to a preexisting phenomenon: dope-smoking left-wing hippie troublemakers.Co-founder Jerry Rubin has been somewhat overlooked, until now. Many argue Rubin sold out when he went from throwing money onto the stock-exchange floor as a lesson in greed to becoming a stockbroker. And yet it’s this transition that makes his life intriguing. In this beautifully designed coffee-table scrapbook, Thomas has stitched together one of the most exciting countercultural chronicles. High Times and founder Tom Forçade make crucial cameos throughout.…

Schedule I drugs must fit three criteria. They must have the greatest potential for abuse, they must be unsafe for use under medical supervision and they must not have an accepted medical use in the United States. But who makes those determinations? The historical, legal and public-policy details surrounding marijuana and the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) are interesting for various reasons, but they obscure a simple truth, a truth that gets lost in the technicalities of the administrative rule-making process and decisions rendered by the federal courts. The simple truth is this: Marijuana can be, and is, grown everywhere in the United States. Thus, the CSA—which attempts to use law enforcement to govern the production of controlled substances, to create a closed and tightly monitored manufacturing and distribution system—has not…

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A bright star in LA’s burgeoning cannabis dining scene, Andrea Drummer was named one of the top 10 pot chefs by Green State and has received praise from Vogue, National Geographic and the Los Angeles Times. A pioneer of combining weed with haute cuisine, Drummer graduated from Le Cordon Bleu before joining master chef Neal Fraser at respected restaurants including Vibiana and Redbird, as well as the Ritz-Carlton. Full of fantastic recipes that are designed for the home cook, Drummer’s new book, Cannabis Cuisine: Bud Pairings of a Born Again Chef, will teach you how to elevate your cuisine and work with the flavor of cannabis rather than seeking to cover it up. With wisdom distilled from her years running Elevation VIP Cooperative, Drummer designs custom menus, dialing in THC…

After being diagnosed with a painful and debilitating autoimmune condition called interstitial cystitis, Jessica Kelly saw firsthand the many challenges that patients who deal with chronic pain face when trying to find effective and compassionate medical care. As a result of her experience—which included having adverse reactions to most of the pharmaceuticals she was being prescribed—Kelly started to research alternative options to manage her pain. After coming across studies suggesting that medical cannabis could be used to manage chronic pain, she wanted to learn more. “Patients are being taken off of their medicine and denied treatment; people are killing themselves because their pain is going unmanaged. We deserve to have access to medical cannabis which is much safer and more effective for managing chronic pain when compared to opioids,” Kelly…

As cannabis becomes big business, worry rises in our community about large corporations taking over the marijuana market. It’s a legitimate concern, yet the only way these fears will be realized is if we give up our ability to grow our own plants. There’s no need to smoke bland pre-rolls from Monsanto or Marlboro when you possess a variety of connoisseur-quality flowers, free of pesticides and grown with love. And what a variety there is! There’s a veritable cornucopia of pot strains, with many flavors, scents, potency levels and cannabinoid profiles to choose from. Cannabis cultivars have come a long way. It’s important to remember that we are not confined to the strains we already know and love. Advancements in lab technology and testing have improved and refined breeding techniques…

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced it is backing the first long-term study to see if medical cannabis can reduce opioid use among adults with chronic pain, including those with HIV. The NIH doled out $3.8 million to researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System to embark on this unprecedented five-year study. “There is a lack of information about the impact of medical marijuana on opioid use in those with chronic pain,” says Chinazo Cunningham, associate chief of general internal medicine at Einstein and Montefiore and principal investigator on the grant. “We hope this study will fill in the gaps and provide doctors and patients with some much-needed guidance.” Interestingly, the study will be using the good stuff: medical-grade cannabis from New York State…

The operators of “the biggest cannabis factory ever seen in the south of England” were busted and sentenced in Wiltshire, according to a BBC report. For three years, the men grew weed around the clock in an underground 20-room complex they’d built in an old bunker originally intended to shelter 150 officials in the event of nuclear war. The three underground entrepreneurs—who employed a group of four “gardeners” to reside in the bunker in order to tend the crops 24/7—received sentences of between five and eight years for conspiracy to produce cannabis, money laundering and “abstracting electricity.” That last charge reflected the £650,000 worth of juice the men had managed to syphon off a nearby power line. Police raided the former bunker, which was built in 1985 and later sold…

A pair of former Kern County, California, sheriff’s deputies managed to avoid prison time for stealing from drug-bust stashes and selling the confiscated goods to a confidential informant. Logan August and Derrick Penney were sentenced to three years’ probation and a boatload of community-service time. They also have to pay back the cash they made in the deals. “The defendants in this case caused a significant breach of the public’s trust when they committed these crimes,” US Attorney Phillip A. Talbert said in a statement. “Not only did they betray the community they were sworn to serve, but also their fellow, hardworking officers who protect the Kern County community every day.” One hard-working officer who was in on the scheme, Bakersfield detective Patrick Mara, wasn’t as lucky as the jail-dodging…

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News that jazz trombonist Steve Davis had cut his 19th album came as a shock. Nineteen? That’s a prodigious output for a relatively young man (just 50) who has already piled up a well-stocked résumé as a sideman (over 130 recordings) with some big-time legends. Davis has recorded or performed with Art Blakey, Jackie McLean, Chick Corea and Wynton Marsalis at myriad venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to the White House. The big gigs are all well and good, but when we think of Davis and his ax, we think of him pouring it out at Smoke, a tightly rolled joint on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, cozy and sublime. Think Ahead gallops out of the gate with primal urgency in its opening track, “Warrior,” before settling into a more romantic,…

J.J. McCoy is Senior Managing Editor for New Frontier Data THE EXTREME VERSATILITY and usefulness of hemp has seen an overdue resurgence in interest lately, which is rather remarkable considering that humans first began cultivating it about 10 millennia ago. Hemp is a variety of the Cannabis sativa L plant species, but—unlike the plant harvested for its flowers and high levels of tetrahydrocannabinolit contains only trace levels of THC. Traditionally used since the Stone Age as a source of food, fiber, medicine and building materials, hemp’s high tensile strength and natural water resistance led to its widespread maritime use in rope and canvas sails during the Age of Exploration. George Washington famously grew hemp at Mount Vernon, both as a cash crop and for use on the plantation itself. It…

“In life, you have three choices. You have ‘put up or shut up,’ ‘change it,’ and you have ‘get out.’” JOSS STONE (BORN JOSCELYN STOKER) GREW UP LISTENING TO HER PARENTS’ RECORD COLLECTIONS, FALLING IN LOVE WITH ARETHA FRANKLIN AT AN EARLY AGE. SHE AUDITIONED FOR THE BBC’S STAR FOR A NIGHT AT AGE 13 ON A LARK AND WON, LEADING TO A RECORD DEAL AND HER MULTIPLATINUM 2003 DEBUT, THE SOUL SESSIONS. AT 16, SHE BECAME THE YOUNGEST PERSON NOMINATED FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM’S PRESTIGIOUS MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE. BY THE TIME SHE WAS 22, STONE WAS DONE WITH THE GLAMOUR AND GLITZ OF BEING A POP STAR. SHE PAID EMI ALMOST EVERYTHING SHE HAD—ALLEGEDLY OVER $10 MILLION—TO BUY HER WAY OUT OF HER CONTRACT. FREEDOM WAS THAT IMPORTANT TO…

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Could THCV help seizures the way CBD does? Hugo N. Weaving Hi Hugo, THCV (tetrahydrocannabivarin) has shown compelling anti-seizure properties when tested on rats. It’s not psychoactive, which gives it a lot of potential to be used as medicine. Unfortunately, research in the United States and the United Kingdom is stymied by its Schedule I status, so human trials are for now a long way off. Why are some strains more relaxing than others? Please don’t just give me the usual rant about indica vs. sativa. Two Tens Howdy Tens, The fine distinctions among strains have not received much attention in the published literature, but terpene research provides a little insight. To oversimplify, indica and sativa strains produce different types and amounts of terpenes, which likely affect the psychoactive properties…

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“Because I used THC for years and stopped two months ago, rogue fat cells within my large frame have been plotting against me.” Alive Again I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease 12 years ago and my quality of life went straight to hell. Four years ago, a neighbor heard me scream from the pain. She slipped me 2-3 grams of weed and I made a tincture in rum. That was my introduction to cannabis as medicine. Cannabis gave me my life back. In 2017, I have had only two flares. Twelve years ago I had that many flares a week. Two Bears Arizona Marijuana’s Cousin High Times recently reported on Tennessee senators being scared to pass a medicinal marijuana bill. When it comes to political views on the cannabis plant,…

Adam Silver The NBA commissioner recently demonstrated a progressive attitude toward pot: “I’m very interested in the science when it comes to medical marijuana… To the extent that science demonstrates that there are effective uses for medical reasons, we’re open to it.” Silver stated that medical pot should be “regulated in the same way that other medications are if the plan is to use it for pain management.” Neil deGrasse Tyson During a Facebook Live interview this summer, the celebrity astrophysicist declared, “There’s no reason for [cannabis] to ever have been made illegal.” Tyson obviously supports pot over a certain socially acceptable substance, opining that “Alcohol is legal and it can mess you up way more than smoking a few jays.” As to his past personal use, Tyson only said,…

US Attorney General Jeff “Buzzkill” Sessions has said he’s worried about a “potentially long-term uptick in violent crime,” and so his Justice Department should therefore drop the hammer on pot-legal states. Sorry, Jeff—crime statistics, even those gathered by the feds, do not justify your worries. According to FBI data, violent crime in Washington has decreased by about 10 percent since 2011, the year before Evergreen State voters legalized recreational cannabis. “As far as I’m aware there is no credible study linking violent crime and marijuana,” Washington State Representative David Sawyer, who chairs the House committee that deals with cannabis, told the News Tribune. “I think what more people are realizing is violent crime is linked to keeping marijuana illegal.” Elsewhere, Colorado saw a 6 percent decrease in the violent-crime rate…

“We all know the things that we like and we don't like about different substances, and things which induce altered states.” DAVID PATRICK KELLY HAS STARRED AS THE BAD GUY IN ALL YOUR FAVORITE GENRE FLICKS—T-BIRD IN THE CROW, CHARLIE THE CLEANER IN JOHN WICK, GANG LEADER LUTHER IN THE WARRIORS AND THE ILL-FATED SULLY IN COMMANDO. BUT WITH A PRO-LIFIC CAREER SPANNING FIVE DECADES, KELLY IS THE POLAR OPPOSITE OF THE MOTOR-MOUTHED ANTAGONISTS HE OFTEN PORTRAYS. GENIAL AND HYPNOTIC, HE SPEAKS WITH A WIZENED DRAWL ABOUT THE FLICKERING HUMANITY BEHIND HIS MOST RECENT ROLE, THE NEWLY-ADDICTED-TO-POT-EDI-BLES JERRY HORNE IN SHOW-TIME’S MASTERFUL REVIVAL OF DAVID LYNCH’S TWIN PEAKS. It’s been 25 years since you last played Jerry Horne. How did you prepare to jump back into Lynch’s world? When I…

“Came inside of Satan’s daughter / Not much later, who’s the father?” So sings vocalist-guitarist Steve Brod-sky on “Date With the Devil” from War Moans. That’s just one of many tongue-in-cheek lyrical turns Brodsky takes on his second album with Mutoid Man, the virtuoso supergroup completed by drummer Ben Koller and bassist Nick Cageao. A glorious math-metal rollercoaster of insane riffs, inhuman drumming and death-defying bass lines, War Moans features guest appearances by ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman and goth songstress Chelsea Wolfe. Satan would approve. J. Bennett Dizzee Rascal’s latest finds the grandfather of grime spitting verbal bullets over a 16-track assault. This gloriously cacophonous album is best ingested in small doses. Rascal’s lyrics speed across the bass-heavy songs, rhymes so complex the beats can’t even keep up—on the blow-off-your-car-doors…

MICRO GROWING SPACE BUCKET STYLE In the finished basement of a rambling green home on a sandy residential street a stone’s throw from the blue-gray ocean of Massachusetts’s South Shore, John is ushering us down into the cramped bedroom closet where he keeps his space bucket. Let’s be clear: We’re not just peering into the closet—John, myself and my photographer are all crowded inside it, personal space at a premium, ducking to avoid clothes on hangers to check out the bucket itself, which is stashed against the wall next to a tackle box and some old boots. It’s about the size of a mini-fridge, fashioned from two Sterilite tote buckets, the top one wrapped in a layer of black duct tape to prevent light from a 300-watt Mars Hydro LED…

SUBJECT: Proper Drying FROM: Clarise P. ❧ What is the right way to dry weed? I’ve tried so many different methods. Dear Clarise, When you’ve determined that it’s time to harvest, cut individual branches from your plant and hang them to dry in a cool, dark place with plenty of air circulation. Take off the big fan leaves and leave the sticky “sugar” leaves that protrude from your flowers. After five to eight days or so, the branches should snap instead of bending, and this is the time to trim off the rest of the leaf and stems and put your buds into glass jars for curing. SUBJECT: Lacewings FROM: Billy ❧ My plants have aphids and my buddy suggested I use lacewings. What are these and how do I…

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The ongoing stereotype of dopey marijuana consumers may be funny in the movies, but it runs counter to evidence-based science. ANOTHER TRUMP ADMINISTRATION official, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson, strayed into the marijuana-law reform debate. Unfortunately, the doctor did not know his facts. In recent remarks given to the Native American Housing Association, Carson veered into reefer-madness territory. According to the Flathead Beacon, the HUD secretary briefly strayed from his prepared remarks to note that he believed marijuana use was just as problematic as opiate abuse. “I’m not all that enthusiastic about marijuana because there have been numerous studies that show exposing a developing brain to marijuana can lead to lower IQs,” Carson said. “We already have enough people with a low IQ, and we don’t need…